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Cartoonist’s Take: October 12, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 12, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 12, 2026

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Questions and answers with the ‘Car Doc’

Questions and answers with the ‘Car Doc’

Q. I read your column faithfully each week. Recently, you mentioned the battery jump packs you keep in your vehicles for emergencies. My battery...

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John Paul

Cartoonist’s Take: October 11, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 11, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 11, 2026

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Guest

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting column: ‘I want to understand my anxiety!’ Really?

Many clients arrive to therapy with the mantra: “I just want to understand my anxiety/my trauma/my procrastination.” And then add, “I want to...

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Dr Randy Cale

Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: ‘Ding-ding-ding.’

Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: ‘Ding-ding-ding.’

I had been holding open the refrigerator door long enough to make it antsy. I could almost hear my mother’s disapproval over the icebox’s sound of...

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Siobhan Connally

Steven Roberts: Reality remains undefeated

Steven Roberts: Reality remains undefeated

“When leaders neglect lived experience, the message collapses,” wrote former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in The New York Times....

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Reader’s View: Together, the first all-women ticket will be elected in NY

Reader’s View: Together, the first all-women ticket will be elected in NY

By Hon. Joanne Dittes Yepsen Regardless of party, New Yorkers care deeply about leaving a better state for the next generation – securing a...

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Guest

Ask the attorney: Forgot the prenup? It’s not too late to protect your assets with a postnup

By Nancy C. Nissen, Esq. A prenuptial agreement is a contract signed by a couple before the marriage ceremony occurs. So, while you cannot sign a...

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Guest

Cartoonist’s Take: October 10, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 10, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 10, 2026

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Guest

Byron York: The Senate seat most likely to flip

Byron York: The Senate seat most likely to flip

When strategists on both sides look at the 2026 Senate map, the state at the top of the list of those most likely to switch parties is North Carolina,...

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Guest

Don Rittner’s column: Why Alex Contompasis deserves Executive Clemency

Don Rittner’s column: Why Alex Contompasis deserves Executive Clemency

More than five years have passed since January 6, 2021, a date forever linked with one of the most divisive moments in modern American history. While...

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Don Rittner

Cartoonist’s Take: October 9, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 9, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 9, 2026

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Guest

Elwood Watson: The Cornell 7 and the continued failure of universities across the country

Elwood Watson: The Cornell 7 and the continued failure of universities across the country

The sordid issue of rape has reared its sadistic presence again in the wake of the Cornell 7 assaults. Seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity at the...

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Guest

Cartoonist’s Take: October 8, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 8, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 8, 2026

08.10.2026 4

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Guest

Cartoonist’s Take: October 7, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 7, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 7, 2026

07.10.2026 8

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Guest

Christine Flowers: Josh Shapiro and the pro-life movement

Christine Flowers: Josh Shapiro and the pro-life movement

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is one of those men who pride themselves on supporting women. That is a good thing. My father was my biggest booster...

07.10.2026 8

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Guest

Dick Polman: The MAGA Senate needs to drown in a blue wave

Dick Polman: The MAGA Senate needs to drown in a blue wave

It’s easy to imagine how James Madison would’ve felt about a MAGA Missouri meathead like Eric Schmitt. As the prime architect of our Constitution,...

07.10.2026 8

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Guest

Cartoonist’s Take: October 6, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 6, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 6, 2026

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Guest

Tom Purcell: Can you pass the citizenship test?

Tom Purcell: Can you pass the citizenship test?

More high schools across America are requiring students to pass the U.S. citizenship test to receive their diploma. This fall Iowa began giving its...

06.10.2026 10

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Guest

Cartoonist’s take: Oct. 5, 2026

Cartoonist’s take: Oct. 5, 2026

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... "Congressional insider trading practices" by Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons. "Trump depression remark...

05.10.2026 10

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Guest

Elwood Watson: A journalist’s parenting decision sparks debate

Elwood Watson: A journalist’s parenting decision sparks debate

Nikole Hannah-Jones’s sobering and provocative column in The New York Times Magazine — where she agonized over the decision to send her daughter...

04.10.2026 10

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Elwood Watson

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting: When homework becomes a nightly battle

By October, some families discover that homework apparently requires two people: a child to avoid it and a parent to remain concerned about it. You...

04.10.2026 10

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Dr Randy Cale

Questions and answers with the ‘Car Doc’

Questions and answers with the ‘Car Doc’

Q. I have a 2018 Subaru Outback with 172,000 miles. Lately, whenever I turn the steering wheel sharp while parking at low speeds, I hear a clicking...

04.10.2026 10

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John Paul

Cartoonist’s Take: October 4, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 4, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 4, 2026

04.10.2026 10

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Guest

Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Fall is such a fleeting, magical time.

Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Fall is such a fleeting, magical time.

Especially for those who partake in the communal culture of running. Colors blaze as the heat subsides. We get to mix long sleeves with short pants...

03.10.2026 10

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Siobhan Connally

Reader’s View: Energy choice is the key to lowering New York’s utility bills

Reader’s View: Energy choice is the key to lowering New York’s utility bills

As the temperatures begin to fall across the Capital Region, furnaces will soon be running longer, lights will be on earlier and families will once...

03.10.2026 10

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Assemblywoman Mary Beth Walsh

Reader’s View: Utility Ratepayer Protection Act will short-circuit surging electric bills

Reader’s View: Utility Ratepayer Protection Act will short-circuit surging electric bills

The leaves are changing and people soon will be turning their thermostats up to heat their homes as the crisp fall air begins to turn colder....

03.10.2026 10

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State Sen Jim Tedisco

Cartoonist’s Take: October 3, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 3, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 3, 2026

03.10.2026 10

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Steven Roberts: Republicans don’t own religion

Steven Roberts: Republicans don’t own religion

For more than 50 years, voters of faith have aligned strongly with the Republican Party. In the last election, white evangelical Christians accounted...

03.10.2026 10

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Guest

Byron York: Are GOP doomers overreacting?

Byron York: Are GOP doomers overreacting?

This has been the week that a deep sense of pessimism about the upcoming midterm elections set in among Republicans around the country. Not just the...

03.10.2026 10

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Guest

Don Rittner: Shedding (Solar) light on a subject

Don Rittner: Shedding (Solar) light on a subject

Sometimes a political or environmental fight begins not in a courtroom or a government office, but across a fence line. And sometimes the hero...

03.10.2026 10

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Don Rittner

Cartoonist’s Take: October 2, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 2, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 2, 2026

02.10.2026 10

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Guest

Cartoonist’s Take: October 1, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: October 1, 2026

01.10.2026 10

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Guest

Elwood Watson: Race and the Lindsay Clancy case

Michael Desronvil, the lone Black juror who prohibited 11 others from absolving Lindsay Clancy of criminal responsibility in the death of her three...

01.10.2026 10

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Guest

Cartoonist’s Take: September 30, 2026

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Cartoonist’s Take: September 29, 2026

29.09.2026 10

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Guest

Cal Thomas: The perfect metaphor

28.09.2026 10

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Guest

Cartoonist’s Take: September 28, 2026

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Guest

Dr. Randy Cale’s Terrific Parenting column: The child who falls apart after school

27.09.2026 10

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Dr Randy Cale

Questions and answers with the ‘Car Doc’

27.09.2026 20

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John Paul

Cartoonist’s Take: September 27, 2026

27.09.2026 10

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Guest

Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: Adaptation

26.09.2026 20

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Siobhan Connally

Steven Roberts: How Trump betrays Hispanics

26.09.2026 10

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Guest

Cartoonist’s Take: September 26, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 26, 2026

26.09.2026 10

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Guest

Byron York: Trump, good economic news and the midterm elections

26.09.2026 20

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Guest

Don Rittner’s column: Saratoga vs. Capital District

Historic preservation looks very different in Saratoga Springs than it does in the rest of the Capital District. Both places have deep architectural...

26.09.2026 40

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Don Rittner

Cartoonist’s Take: September 25, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 25, 2026

25.09.2026 10

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Guest

Elwood Watson: The Trump show rolls on

Goofy, bizarre, unhinged, and politically surreal. The recent Republican midterm convention, held in Dallas, was nothing short of a misfire by any...

24.09.2026 10

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Guest

Cartoonist’s Take: September 24, 2026

Cartoonist’s Take: September 24, 2026

24.09.2026 10

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Guest

Tom Purcell: Parents choosing Catholic school values

In two states where school-choice vouchers are available, many parents are choosing Catholic schools. After my own Catholic school experience, I think...

23.09.2026 20

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Tom Purcell